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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

If they crashed the computer irrecoverably did they have to throw away the computer after?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes I believe they dragged it to the wastebasket

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the clarification - it makes sense now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They then used an even larger mouse to drag the actual computer to the garbage bin.

The garbage bin then caught fire.

This is the origin of the dumpster fire meme.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

A capybara or was it a smaller mouse then that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm probably missing a joke here, but irrecoverably as in they most likely needed another computer to fix it: In this case, create a new startup floppy disk - there was no hard drive, after all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why can’t you just take the hard drive out of the garbage and reinstall?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The computer is inaccessible, and if you did that, the best way to fix it, while also avoiding any other potential issues stemming from that, is just to reinstall the thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The beepy thing, the brrr-brr thing or the flashy thing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The box what goes bang if you poke it wrong.